Palilgu - Chicago

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   Ric

   Chicago1 review

   5.0

   Dined on 15 March 2025

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 4
   4. Ambience 5

   Tasty, elevated Korean fare that still hews to its humble origins. Generous portions and terrific craft cocktails. Smart ambience, with thought put into muted decor, lighting and sound levels. Only quibble is that the elevated experience is lost with flimsy napkins that don't hold up, and t-shirt unis. Fix those and Palilgu could easily charge more without affront. Will be back.
   

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   Bridget

   Chicago1 review

   5.0

   Dined on 13 March 2025

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   AMAZING, everything was delicious, the staff is so wonderful, overall such a great place
   

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   Chris

   Chicago4 reviews

   5.0

   Dined on 8 March 2025

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   Food was excellent. Great for group sharing and getting a wide variety of food.
   

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   Mitchell

   Chicago1 review

   2.0

   Dined on 2 March 2025

   1. Overall 2
   2. Food 2
   3. Service 4
   4. Ambience 5

   This place is a bit more style than substance unfortunately. First I will say the atmosphere is super nice and you can have an intimate meal here. Bibimbop advertised as having "classic banchan" should have classic banchan on the side. There was no kimchi, no pickled radish, nothing. The bulgogi beef used was advertised as wagyu, but came out thickly cut, chewy and sinewy. $26 is overpriced for what you get. The Tteokbokki is good, it's a nice shareable portion for 2. The cheese corn is decent. The seafood and scallion pancake is fine also, probably little overfilled with scallion but still tasty. Overall, there's better Korean food in the area for better value.
   

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   Jae

   Chicago7 reviews

   5.0

   Dined on 2 March 2025

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   As a Korean I was very excited to try this restaurant and excited by the menu. Every dish/ drink I tried was great! -Bossam -Pancakes -Wings (Soy garlic) -Makku passion fruit makgeoli Great service and ambiance as well.
   

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   Maurice

   Chicago1 review

   5.0

   Dined on 15 February 2025

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   Perfect experience, everything was great. I wanted to order everything. 10/10
   

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   Emily VIP

   Chicago2 reviews

   5.0

   Dined on 14 February 2025

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   Thought the food and drinks here were amazing! Spicy pork sliders and the wings were our favorites, but everything was delicious!
   

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   Julie

   Chicago1 review

   2.0

   Dined on 8 February 2025

   1. Overall 2
   2. Food 4
   3. Service 1
   4. Ambience 5

   The service was terrible. Waiter was inattentive and slow. Seemed like they barely cared about anything.
   

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   jane

   New York City35 reviews

   4.0

   Dined on 25 January 2025

   1. Overall 4
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 3
   4. Ambience 3

   Excellent classic korean dishes. Elevated with quality ingredients and presentation. Service was ok, friendly but inefficient—room for improvement with more training.
   

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    Noah VIP

    Chicago14 reviews

    5.0

    Dined on 12 January 2025

    1. Overall 5
    2. Food 5
    3. Service 5
    4. Ambience 4

    Great food. We needed really good Korean food in our area especially that goes beyond Korean BBQ. The service is great as well. We will be coming back and ordering carry out in between visits.
    

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